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  1. Experience Counts on China Built the World's Largest Telescope, But Has No One To Run It (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe the issue with the large amount of experience is understanding all the tasks that need to get down from a maintenance perspective.

    For comparison, how comfortable would you feel flying on a new plane and the person whom you hired to maintain it is a auto-mechanic. Where to look and what to look for before things become a problem comes only with experience. If the Chinese built something this big, I believe that they don't want to hire some guy to learn on the job, and fix stuff after it gets screwed up.

    They should have been apprenticing someone to learn how to take on this task while they were still constructing it, but apprenticeships seem like a dirty word in today's world.

  2. Should we be surprised? on Disastrous 'Pokemon Go' Event Leads To Mass Refunds (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3

    It is a cell phone based game. I play in the suburbs which has reasonable coverage, but I have period network issues with the game. There cannot be that many people in my area that are impacting the network so it has to be the game.

    Add in REAL network congestion, of course this is going to be disaster. The part I don't believe is that people actually PAID to go to this!

    Did they hire Ja Rule to run this or what?

  3. Re:I tried Python on IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language (ieee.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After using it, it is eh, not a big deal. You indent the same amount for everything in the block, which you are probably doing most of the time anyways. It is their little cheat around not having block delimiters.

    If you need to a pick a reason to not like Python, this is not it.

  4. Re:USA #1 !! on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Personal income tax earned in another country has NO relation to corporations sitting on earnings stashed in another country.

  5. Offshore Consequences on Apple, Google and Microsoft Are Hoarding $464 Billion In Cash (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The US has been very generous at allowing shell companies and off-shore earnings to be store in other countries. Once a corporation gets a handout, they expect it into perpetuity and they want all the market access and its protections of the legal system while avoiding contributing to it.

    This basically shows that this is the consequence of letting companies sit on cash to avoid taxes. Another commenter said the US tax system is too complicated. It is, but the benefits from it go to corporations who use it to avoid taxes, not to increase them.

  6. Why do you assume it is the labor costs of running the factory instead of the management? I am sure that the building of the TVs is the easy part, running the rest of it, you cannot do that with spreadsheets.

    I have seen more than my fair share of people who cannot even manage their own time, Handle a manufacturing timeline for coordinating parts to be delivered and assembling a product?In this case, the Chinese probably have more practical experience in running a factory, irrespective of the labor costs.

  7. Re:"The car will tattle on the driver." on Man Blames Tesla Autopilot System For Rollover Crash, Then Recants (autoguide.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obviously you are not a lawyer, because "he said / she said" is numerous billing hours and courts and works out great for them and the justice system.

  8. Re:Pearl clutch! Pearl clutch! on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Vitamin D deficiency has been linked with autism. It would not surprise me if we find other things that are not genetically linked to autism as well. Autism has only been recognized relatively recently so the body of research on the underlying causes are not going to be completely understood.

    The mistrust of vaccines is people filling in their ignorance of science or government with conspiracies on anyone or anything that they don't like or understand. This mistrust seems to coming from people who really don't understand how these things contribute to improving their lives because they are not transparent or easy to show results.

    I wonder if this is what limits the size of civilization, society breaking down because they don't support government and its benefits transparently vanish.

  9. Re:Nobody in Hong Kong wants a Tesla anymore. on Tesla Sales in Hong Kong Dry Up After Gov't Drops Tax Break (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    It costs so much because of the unreasonable import fee of 50% being placed on these items. It is forcing Tesla to build a plant in mainland China if they want to sell cars there.

    If only our own government could institute a similar policy on chinese products to protect american industries...

  10. Don't forget that maybe it is displayed in Ukrainian? I bet that would explain why it has a large market there as well.

  11. Lawyers and Lobbyists!

    Someone has to be out there greasing palms and complaining about being repressed to the politicians.

  12. Re:This is just the beginning on America's Five Biggest Tech Stocks Lost $97 Billion Friday (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    Amazon has been a Growth stock for 20 years. The reality is that is a speculative stock that has never been pressured to earn a profit.

    If Amazon has to actually generate real profiles, you can beat Amazon's stock price would crash spectacularly

  13. LOL, fair enough!

    I missed that typo, I meant to say Jira, which costs thousands of dollars and does basically the same thing.

  14. Trac on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I liked Trac a lot. It integrated Wiki, ticketing and Code repository information all in one and it was easier than Trac. However, it is not new or cool so developers don't think it was hip and always looking at something else.

  15. The Politically Correct Business BS on LeEco Said To Lay Off Over 80 Percent of US Workforce (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Layoff - a discharge, especially temporary, of a worker or workers

    I love how business has gotten so good at crafting the message. They didn't fired everyone, they were layed off. Like the dead were going to come back to life or something.

  16. Re:Perl Developer on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2

    It was always around, but it was not bringing in younger programmers. Instead, those guys were being pulled into the next fad. I cannot blame them, they needed a job and a lot of the problems they were supposedly solving were more BS than real issues.

    It would keep getting deprecated by Java and Ruby, and then PHP, now it Python (this is over the course of the last 13 years or so).

    It has always existed in the *NIX administration space and is it installed by default and it does things that BASH simply cannot do.I suspect it will always be around behind the scenes, but will not be a primary job skill anymore.

  17. Perl Developer on The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have been doing Perl development for a long time, and in the last two years, it has straight out disappeared. You can still find Perl as a job requirement, usually as part of DevOps positions, but actually writing apps in it, they are gone.

    I have noticed that the new fad for LAMP is Python, it has shown up everywhere and years before it PHP, but Perl has been relegated to being a systems administration tool.

  18. Re:Uh...yeah! on Laid-Off IT Workers Worry US Is Losing Tech Jobs To Outsourcing (www.cio.in) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand how people can think that money is an infinite resource.

    I think you made a mistake, Money is an infinite resource, for the banks it is just a number, in my wallet it is a piece of paper. When we have extremely rich people hoarding money, of course the money is going to go into the crappier. If people are not spending money, then you put more into circulation by printing more and spending it. Yes, it causes inflation, but have a segment of society NOT spending large amounts of money is causing deflation.

    Money is used to facilitate commerce, not a resource onto itself. People who are extremely rich are literally are worshiping currency by hoarding it and demonizing anyone that does not have it as being lazy. That is their justification for their extreme wealth and why we cannot take it away from them, regardless of the cost to society.

  19. Re:You're doing it extremely wrong on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You do realize that 160K is before taxes, right. You can easily pay 35% of that between Fed, state and local taxes, include company provided healthcare insurance that can easily bring it to 40%. Drop that 124K for OTHER expenses down to 60K. Depending on what the other expenses are, you can easily spend 5K for utilities, 5K for having a car, and another 8% in sales taxes. Now you are easily down to 46K and you have not eaten or clothed yourself yet.

    You can probably save enough to get 15K in savings. That is not a lot if you have kids and want to send them to college, and retiring, please!

  20. Re:moving all the time is dumb on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 2

    If you are moving around, you are not limited to the opportunities in the area that you are in. No opportunities, no chance to grow, you become a sharecropper. Just take a look at all those company towns that depended upon the one factory in the area for job. Once it left, they had nothing to fall back on.

  21. Re:Dump H1B on Bay Area Tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see the problem with crappy startups. They are like a parasite sucking money from venture capitalists, it creates jobs, even if they are just crappy ones.

  22. Too Many my A** on A Record High of 455 Scripted TV Shows Aired in 2016 (vulture.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem is not quantity, it is quality. It amazes me how many shows that are absolute trash get put out and that is before we have reached these *peak* numbers. Maybe an increase in quantity, we can get new blood to see different or hopefully better shows.

    The last thing the world needs is to be locked up with the Michael Bay's of the world because they are too afraid to try anything new or different.

  23. I hope they settle on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Crazy Frog)

  24. Re:We lost. Let's take a breath and see what happe on Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the government is not a business and the president is not a CEO that gets to do whatever he wants.

  25. Federal Law and Tracking on Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I would love to see is laws being tracked in version control. The text of congressional bills are large and people can easily slip in minor changes with major impact. There is no real tracking of who edited a bills text and version control would provide that transparency.

    Beats having people acting shocked with something is added at changes added at the last minute.